Fibonacci
Introduction:
In 1202, Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano (also known as Fibonacci, meaning
"son of Bonacci") pondered the question: Given optimal conditions, how many pairs
of rabbits can be produced from a single pair of rabbits in one year?
The Fibonacci Sequence has always attracted
the attention of people since, as well as What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
having special mathematical properties, other
The mathematics of the golden ratio and
numbers so ubiquitous as those of Fibonacci
of the Fibonacci sequence are intimately
do not exist anywhere else in mathematics:
interconnected. The Fibonacci sequence is a
they appear in geometry, algebra, number
recursive sequence, generated by adding the
theory, in many other fields of mathematics
two previous numbers in the sequence.: 0,
and even in nature! 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144,
233, 377, 610, 987…
The Golden Ratio
If we take the ratio of two successive How Common Is The Fibonacci Sequence in
numbers in Fibonacci's series, (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, Nature?
8, 13, ..) and we divide each by the number
before it, we will find the following series - The fibonacci appears in the smallest, to
of numbers: the largest objects in nature. It is a way for
1/1 = 1, 2/1 = 2, 3/2 = 1·5, 5/3 = information to flow in a very efficient
1·666..., 8/5 = 1·6, 13/8 = 1·625, manner.
21/13 = 1·61538...
- Fibonacci numbers appear in nature often
enough to prove that they reflect some
naturally occurring patterns.
EXAMPLE OF
SEED HEADS, PINECONES, FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES
Look at the array of seeds in the center of a sunflower and
you'll notice what looks like spiral patterns curving left and
right. Amazingly, if you count these spirals, your total will be a
Fibonacci number. Divide the spirals into those pointed left
and right and you'll get two consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
You can decipher spiral patterns in pinecones, pineapples and
cauliflower that also reflect the Fibonacci sequence in this
manner.
Romanesque Broccoli Pineapples
Pinecones
Flowers and branches
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Some plants express the Fibonacci
sequence in their growth points, the
places where tree branches form or split.
One trunk grows until it produces a
branch, resulting in two growth points.
The main trunk then produces another
branch, resulting in three growth points.
Then the trunk and the first branch SUNFLOWER
PURPLE FLOWER BALLOON
produce two more growth points, bringing
the total to five. This pattern continues,
following the Fibonacci numbers.
Additionally, if you count the number of
petals on a flower, you'll often find the
total to be one of the numbers in the
Fibonacci sequence. For example, lilies
and irises have three petals, buttercups
and wild roses have five, delphiniums
have eight petals and so on.
THE HUMAN BODY
Face Body
Take a good look at yourself
in the mirror. You'll notice that
most of your body parts follow
the numbers one, two, three
and five. You have one nose,
two eyes, three segments to
each limb and five fingers on
each hand. The proportions
and measurements of the
human body can also be
Hand Ear
divided up in terms of the
golden ratio. DNA molecules
follow this sequence,
measuring 34 angstroms long
and 21 angstroms wide for
each full cycle of the double
helix
